Conflict management in the MENA region has little chance of succeeding as conflicts increasingly intersect and tensions driven by larger, regional triggers become even more unpredictable
Gains made in the wake of the Tunisian uprising and in the decade sincecannot be fully qualified but, on the ground, it is clear that Tunisia has transformed itself.
Rather than making North Africa safer, securitizing borders has raised the risk of instability along the region’s frontiers, where communities depend on smuggling.
Following the Arab Spring, the fight for women’s sexual and social rights will be won in the Middle East and North Africa through progressive evolution, not revolution.
Although Maghreb states have tended to pursue border security unilaterally, increased transnational coordination at the local level offers a more sustainable approach.
Given the domestic upheavals that accompanied the Arab uprisings of 2011, how did Tunisia become the Arab Spring’s success story? Part of the answer is the pragmatism of the Islamist Ennahda movement, which formed a troika coalition with two secular parties after the ouster of the country’s dictator.
Women continue to face challenges in accessing the higher echelons of political power, but also in playing a more substantive role in the policymaking process.
Tunisia’s successful Ennahda Party has moved towards separating its religious and political activities. It marks an important milestone in the development of Arab politics.
Four very different events on the same day all confirm once again the hard consequences of the unsustainable policies that all Arab governments, without exception, pursued since the 1970s.
أثار صعود الإسلاميين في أعقاب الربيع العربي حالة من الاستقطاب المجتمعي في العديد من الدول. وبينما يتصدَّر الجهاديون اليوم مشهد حركات الإسلام السياسي بعد أن استخدموا العنف الشديد في السيطرة على مساحات واسعة من الأراضِ، ينبغي طرح سؤال: هل يمكن التوفيق بين الإسلام السياسي والحداثة العلمانية؟
